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Her roots run deep in Pine Bluffs

One of the 3000 babies delivered by "Doc" Morris in the Pine Bluffs area was Becky Martinez, who came into the world at the home of her grandparents May 30, 1950.

Legally she is named Jennie Elizabeth Martinez, nee Redden. However, according to Martinez only the Farmers State Bank knows her as Jennie. Everybody else calls her Becky.

"My dad said, 'I don't care what you name her . . .I'm calling her Becky,' and I've been Becky all of my life," Martinez said.

When Martinez was six or seven-years-old, Jack Redden and family traveled around, said Martinez. Her father worked for a time as a dry cle...

 

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